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Combining InRail and MXRAIL for Integrated Design, Maintenance and Renewal


Features

Maintenance Workflow

Data Import

  • Geometry or surface data in virtually any ASCII format with a Text Import Wizard
  • Versine
  • Industry-standard LandXML geometry (horizontal, vertical, and cant) and surface data

Regression Analysis

  • Horizontal and vertical alignments from survey data utilizing least squares computations
  • Simultaneous regression of single or multiple elements with the Connection Editor
  • Single element regression or heads-up point selection and automatic single-element regression
  • Advanced multi-element regression with all supported element types (lines, circular arcs, and transition spirals)
  • Validation of existing survey data based on user-specified criteria (minimum/maximum distance between points, angular differences, gradient differences, and so on)
  • Conversion of surveyed rails to centerline
  • Data selection and sorting
  • Data editing for inclusion, exclusion, and weighting
  • Rail Curvature Diagram
    • Automatically generates transition points
    • Inclusion of cant as an improved source of data for element determination

Design Validation

  • Curvature diagrams and/or slew diagrams
  • Plan and profile annotation
  • XSL/XML reporting (horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and cant )

Export to Field

  • Plasser & Theurer tampers (ALC and WinALC systems)
  • Matisa tampers (the PALAS system)
  • Trimble
  • Leica
  • LandXML

Design Workflow

Interactive Geometry

  • Robust sets of interactive geometry tools for on-screen alignment generation
  • Tools using methods and principles specific to rail design and civil engineering
  • Check Integrity tool for location and removal of alignment discontinuities

Horizontal Alignment

  • Lines
  • Circular arcs (arc and chord definition)
  • Multiple spiral transition definitions, including:
    • Clothoid
    • Cubic parabola
    • Bloss
    • Biquadratic parabola
    • Sinusoidal
    • Cosine
    • Viennese-Austria

Vertical Alignment

  • Lines
  • Parabola
  • Circular arcs
  • Vertical clothoid transition spirals

Cant

  • Equilibrium equations ( Eq = 11.8 * V2 / R )
  • Computation of equilibrium cant, applied cant, cant deficiency, rate of change of applied cant, rate of change of cant deficiency, and cant gradient
  • ASCII tables
  • Transitions
  • Transitions that match the supported horizontal transitions
  • Virtual transitions (where horizontal transitions are not required but cant is required)
  • Design checks incorporated in editing
  • Cant integrated into all horizontal curve edits

Turnouts

  • Turnouts in the most popular configurations:
    • Single branch
    • Double branch
    • Single slip
    • Double slip
    • Diamond crossings
  • Support for multiple bending methods
    • Swiss bending practice
    • German bending practice
    • UK tangent and offset practice
  • Library of industry-standard turnouts
    • German standards
    • German light rail standards
    • UK 113A and NR60 standards
    • AREMA standards
  • Tools for user-defined standards
  • Interactive creation and editing
  • Turnout Connection Editor for connecting turnouts and editing connections

Surface Modeling

  • Profile Generator
    • Easy profile creation across multiple surfaces
    • Display and annotation of profiles and associated data such as vertical curves, superelevation diagrams, and digital terrain modeling (DTM) features
  • Feature-based DTM
    • Flexible, double-precision
    • Intelligent features
    • Representation and labeling of the DTM based on feature definition
    • Proper display and labeling of terrain features throughout the model
  • Typical Section Libraries
    • Custom creation of typical sections for generating cross sections on the fly
    • Cut/fill tables and decision tables for automatic adjustment of the model to predefined conditions

Interoperability

  • Seamless integration between CAD platforms – in both DGN and DWG environments
  • Integration with Bentley ProjectWise to bring collaborative design data to the entire project team in a secure environment
  • Integration with Digital InterPlot, enabling automated plot set generation and Web-based access to plot archives

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